186 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.
snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-33, ride through bars 34-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-37, and 13 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 28, and 9 more places -- 6.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.
22
1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|26 fills to learn, played 98 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29 and 92 more.
It cuts the song into 67 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
215 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
186 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 minutes each.
crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
26 fills to learn, played 98 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 26, 27, 29 and 92 more.